Photographic Narrative: Taiwan
May 21, 2025This spring, I took a trip to my home country, Taiwan.
For this trip, I brought with me a few rolls of expired 120 films that I intended to shoot on my late grandfather Chi-Fu’s Ricohflex. I also brought my field recorder to collect some sounds of Taiwan as I travel throughout the island. I experienced many moments of nostalgia triggered by childhood memories and a specific trip I took to Taiwan in 2015. These moments unexpectedly opened some old wounds, but they also mended some unresolved emotions that I thought I had moved on from. They are as much part of my photography journey as my personal one. This video is a fragmented documentary with original sound recordings of this trip.
今年的春天我回去我的家鄉，台灣。
我帶了一些過期的中幅底片想用奇福外公的 Ricohflex 紀錄一些家鄉的感覺。我也帶了錄音器材同時記錄台灣的聲音。我經歷了許多由童年記憶與我在2015年所踏上的一段旅程所觸發的懷舊時刻。這些時刻出乎意料地揭開了一些舊傷，但同時也療癒了我以為早已釋懷的情緒。這些經歷不僅是我攝影創作的一部分，也更是我個人成長的一部分。這支影片算是一部關於這次旅程的片段式紀錄片，不僅僅是影像上的紀錄，還配上我在這段旅程上所收錄的原始聲音。